New Jersey Jewish Film Festival

Each year the New Jersey Jewish Film Festival touches members of our community in a myriad of ways as it celebrates Jewish life and values. 

Take Risa Perlmutter Goldstein for example, whose visit to the 2002 Festival provided inspiration for the making of Sister Rose’s Passion, a highlight of the Festival in 2005. “The Festival gave me, an architect with no film background whatsoever at the time, tremendous inspiration and motivation,” said Ms. Goldstein. She enlisted the cooperation of friend and filmmaker Steve Kalafer, who brought the idea to others, made the film, and went on to win an Academy Award nomination and first prize at New York’s 2004 Tribeca Film Festival.

The New Jersey Jewish Film Festival does not merely connect the affiliated. It draws in and inspires unaffiliated members of the Jewish community as well, and thus serves as a portal to Jewish pride and communal involvement.

Your gift of $85,000 will underwrite the New Jersey Jewish Film Festival for one year. An endowment of $1,700,000 will ensure that the Festival continues to move and inspire Jews in this community far into the future.

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and other funding opportunities offered by
the Jewish Community Foundation of MetroWest NJ.

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